Graduate Student Research

Rob Gilbert

The National Philosophical Counseling Organization recently published Rob's paper about the metaphysics of mental disorders (and what sorts of things these are if they can even be considered things at all) in the latest volume of their annual journal. Here's a link to the article.  

Seth Kreeger

Aquinas’ Attribution of Creation Ex Nihilo to Plato and Aristotle: The Importance of Avicenna

Sterling Knox

PhD student Sterling Knox has been appointed to the Juvenile Justice Advisory Committee. Read the newspaper article here 

Mehrzad A. Moin 

Moin, Mehrzad A. “Heidegger on Anxiety in the Face of Death—An Analysis and Extension.” Southwest Philosophy Review 37, no. 2 (July 2021): 131–47. Read here https://doi.org/10.5840/swphilreview202137245

Marisola Xhelili Ciaccio

Marisola is part of the Education Preparedness Program providing academic support and career building resources for incarcerated and recently released students through Marquette University's Center for Urban Research, Teaching, & Outreach, in collaboration with partnering academic institutions and community organizations. 

Karolyn Burns and Melady Elifritz

Love, Sex and Justice in the South
PhD students Karolyn Burns and Melady Elifritz were invited to speak on a panel at this year’s Southeastern Women’s Studies Association (SEWSA) Conference on Love, Sex and Justice in the South (3/24-3/26, virtual). The panel Feasting and the Ecologies of Sex weaves together sexual excess under racial capitalism from 16th century Europe, plantations of the American South and our current time.